Sporting Kansas City has announced its 2015 Major League Soccer schedule.
According to the club, there will be 34 regular season games. Single-game tickets for the first 10 regular season home matches will go on sale to the public on Feb. 2. Current 2015 season ticket members will have a pre-sale opportunity.
Sporting Kansas City will kick off the team’s 20th season on Sunday, March 8, against the New York Red Bulls at Sporting Park in a match-up of the top two goal scorers from the 2014 MLS season.
All-Stars Dom Dwyer and Bradley Wright-Phillips will go head-to-head on FOX Sports 1 in Sporting Kansas City’s first of 10 nationally-televised matches during the 2015 regular season.
FOX Sports 1, ESPN2 and UniMas – each of which will televise MLS matches through 2022 as part of new eight-year agreements — will collectively air seven regular season matches live from Sporting Park in 2015, along with a pair of 2013 MLS Cup rematches at Real Salt Lake and the club’s first-ever match against Orlando City SC at the Citrus Bowl (Sept. 13).
FOX Sports 1 and ESPN2 will simulcast MLS matches on their Spanish-language networks (ESPN Deportes, FOX Deportes) and their authenticated digital offerings (WatchESPN, FOX Sports GO). UniMas broadcasts will be available in Spanish and English both on television and live streamed on the Univision Deportes app.
Every Sporting Kansas City regular season MLS match will again be shown live in 2015. KMCI-TV (38 the Spot), a member of the SKCTV Network, will serve as the team’s local broadcast partner and will carry all regular season matches not nationally televised on FOX Sports 1 or ESPN2. KCMI’s plans include pre-game and post-game coverage, as well as select Sporting Kansas City programming to air on sister station KSHB-TV.
Sporting Kansas City re-joins the Western Conference in 2015, due to the addition of expansion sides Orlando City SC and New York City FC, and will play each of the 10 Eastern Conference foes once over the course of the upcoming campaign. The remaining 24 regular season matches are spent within the West, as follows:
Two games versus: LA Galaxy, San Jose Earthquakes, Vancouver Whitecaps.
Three games versus: Seattle Sounders, Houston Dynamo, Colorado Rapids, FC Dallas, Portland Timbers, Real Salt Lake.
Sporting Kansas City begins the 2015 campaign with 16 games in the season’s opening 15 weeks before the team’s first bye on June 13. Additional weekends off from MLS action for Sporting KC in 2015 are July 4, Sept. 5 (FIFA date) and Oct. 10 (FIFA date).
The first half of Sporting Kansas City’s 2015 regular season schedule is highlighted by a stretch of five straight games against teams that appeared in the 2014 MLS Cup Playoffs (Seattle twice, as well as New England, FC Dallas and Real Salt Lake).
Sporting KC heads to Yankee Stadium for the club’s inaugural match against David Villa and New York City FC on March 28, then is home on April 5 (Easter Sunday) for the club’s 600th all-time regular season game (and 300th regular season home game in team history).
State-of-the-art Sporting Park, which opened in June 2011, will then play host to its 100th Sporting Kansas City match on May 16 (80 MLS, 10 USOC, 5 CCL, 5 Friendlies).
2015 home opponents: New York Red Bulls, Portland Timbers, Philadelphia Union, Real Salt Lake, Chicago Fire, Colorado Rapids (x2), New England Revolution, FC Dallas (x2), Seattle Sounders (x2), Montreal Impact, Houston Dynamo, Vancouver Whitecaps, San Jose Earthquakes, LA Galaxy.
2015 road opponents: FC Dallas, New York City FC, LA Galaxy, Houston Dynamo (x2), D.C. United, Seattle Sounders, Real Salt Lake (x2), Vancouver Whitecaps, Toronto FC, Columbus Crew SC, Colorado Rapids, Portland Timbers (x2), Orlando City SC, San Jose Earthquakes.
Manager Peter Vermes has led Sporting KC to the most road wins (28) of any MLS team since 2011 and will be tasked with two trips to Houston, Portland and Real Salt Lake in 2015 while twice welcoming Colorado, Dallas and Seattle to Sporting Park. The club’s list of away fixtures also feature two fan-friendly road trips for local supporters with Saturday night matches scheduled in Dallas (March 14) and Colorado (Aug. 29).
Sporting Kansas City will embark on a four-game road trip from Aug. 22 through Sept. 13 that sees the team finish the 2015 regular season with seven of their final 10 matches away from home, including a first-ever match at the San Jose Earthquakes brand new Avaya Stadium on Oct. 16 in the regular season road finale.
The three home matches during that stretch all come against Western Conference teams that reached the postseason in 2014, including the penultimate home match of the regular season against Supporters’ Shield holders Seattle Sounders FC (Sept. 27) and the “Decision Day” finale against reigning MLS Cup champions LA Galaxy (Oct. 25).
Sporting Kansas City will also participate in the 2015 edition of the Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup, a single-elimination domestic tournament that the team won in 2004 and 2012. Prior to the 2015 season, Sporting Kansas City will travel to Tucson, Arizona for the team’s pre-season preparations (Jan. 25 thru Feb. 10 and Feb. 15 through March 1).
For information on group ticket packages and partial season ticket packages for the 2015 season, call 888-4KC-GOAL.
– Story from Sporting KC
Sporting Kansas City 2015 MLS regular season schedule
Date Opponent Time Television
Sun., March 8 vs. New York Red Bulls 6pm FS1/FOX Deportes
Sat., March 14 at FC Dallas 7:30pm SKCTV
Sat., March 21 vs. Portland Timbers 7:30pm SKCTV
Sat., March 28 at New York City FC TBD SKCTV
Sun., April 5 vs. Philadelphia Union 6pm FS1/FOX Deportes
Sat., April 11 vs. Real Salt Lake 7:30pm SKCTV
Sat., April 18 at LA Galaxy 9:30pm SKCTV
Sat., April 25 at Houston Dynamo 7:30pm SKCTV
Sun., May 3 vs. Chicago Fire 4pm ESPN2/ESPN Deportes
Sat., May 9 at D.C. United 6pm SKCTV
Sat., May 16 vs. Colorado Rapids 7:30pm SKCTV
Wed., May 20 vs. New England Revolution 7pm ESPN2/ESPN Deportes
Sat., May 23 at Seattle Sounders TBD SKCTV
Fri., May 29 vs. FC Dallas 8pm UniMas/KMCI-TV
Sat., June 6 vs. Seattle Sounders 7:30pm SKCTV
Sun., June 21 at Real Salt Lake 9pm FS1/FOX Deportes
Sat., June 27 vs. Colorado Rapids 7:30pm SKCTV
Sun., July 12 at Vancouver Whitecaps TBD SKCTV
Sat., July 18 vs. Montreal Impact 7:30pm SKCTV
Fri., July 24 at Real Salt Lake 10pm UniMas/KMCI-TV
Sat., Aug. 1 vs. Houston Dynamo 7:30pm SKCTV
Sat., Aug. 8 at Toronto FC TBD SKCTV
Sat., Aug. 15 vs. Vancouver Whitecaps 7:30pm SKCTV
Wed., Aug. 19 vs. San Jose Earthquakes 7:30pm SKCTV
Sat., Aug. 22 at Columbus Crew SC 6:30pm SKCTV
Sat., Aug. 29 at Colorado Rapids 8pm SKCTV
Wed., Sept. 9 at Portland Timbers 9:30pm SKCTV
Sun., Sept. 13 at Orlando City SC 6pm FS1/FOX Deportes
Fri., Sept. 18 vs. FC Dallas 6pm UniMas/KMCI-TV
Wed., Sept. 23 at Houston Dynamo 7:30pm SKCTV
Sun., Sept. 27 vs. Seattle Sounders 4pm ESPN2/ESPN Deportes
Sat., Oct. 3 at Portland Timbers 9:30pm SKCTV
Fri., Oct. 16 at San Jose Earthquakes 10pm SKCTV
Sun., Oct. 25 vs. LA Galaxy 6pm SKCTV
*Subject to change; times listed as TBD will be announced at a later date